title: Mechanism of torrential regurgitation in mitral valve endocarditis: the usual chordal rupture-leaflet flail or another more dramatic structural defect?
authors.affiliation: Anesthesia, the Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI.
authors.forename: Eliot M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Wickliff
authors.affiliation: Anesthesia, the Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI.
authors.forename: Craig A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.affiliation: Cardiothoracic Surgery Services, the Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI.
authors.forename: Moritz C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Wyler von Ballmoos
authors.affiliation: Cardiothoracic Surgery Services, the Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI.
authors.forename: Heather L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Dague
authors.affiliation: Anesthesia, the Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI.
authors.forename: Jutta
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Novalija
authors.affiliation: Cardiothoracic Surgery Services, the Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI.
authors.forename: G Hossein
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Almassi
authors.affiliation: Anesthesia, the Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI. Electronic address: pspagel@mcw.edu.
authors.forename: Paul S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Pagel
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055624:Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000150:complications; D014463:Ultrasonography
keywords: 2D and 3D TEE; endocarditis; leaflet perforation; mitral regurgitation; mitral valve; respiratory failure; sepsis; septic embolism; transesophageal echocardiography; vegetation